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Organized, annotated collection of footnotes from my book, Conversation and Community

{ Posted on Aug 20 2009 by annegentle }

Tags : book, references, tagging, URLs
Categories : social media

Delicious.com plays host to all the links from my book, Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation. I've written notes or created quotes for each URL and given them meaningful tags. The main idea is to gather them in once ...Read More »

Can online help show “read wear?”

{ Posted on May 28 2008 by annegentle }

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Tags : online help, popular, popularity, read wear, reading, tag clouds, tagging, web analysis, wiki
Categories : writing

I've been re-reading Jakob Nielson's Participation Inequality essay on useit.com, and the suggestion to some how show wear marks on content struck me this evening for some reason. I guess it's because I've been working on Drupal recently, and discovered ...Read More »

Info architecture work that sometimes makes my head hurt

{ Posted on Feb 06 2008 by annegentle }

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Tags : del.icio.us, information, tagging
Categories : writing

Most info architects agree - planning for reuse is harder than conditional text. But even conditional text can be difficult, especially if there are multiple conditions that overlap. The winner of the "most conditional text" contest was this commenter on ...Read More »

Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler, advocate for change

{ Posted on Nov 06 2007 by annegentle }

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Tags : blogging, hosted software, mashups, podcasting, rss, SaaS, social media, social networking, subscription, syndication, tagging, technical writing, techpubs, video, video documentation, wiki
Categories : social media, techpubs

I'm listening in on Scott's somewhat-famous Web 2.0 for technical communicators talk. He has given it 15 times this year already so I'm very excited to hear it here in Austin, TX at the Quadralay WebWorks RoundUp user conference. Here ...Read More »

The anti-social folksonomist

{ Posted on Sep 17 2007 by annegentle }

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Tags : crowdsourcing, del.icio.us, findability, folksonomy, index, indexing, social media, tagging, writing
Categories : social media

I'm finding that in del.icio.us I'm using keywords that no one else uses. Does this mean I'm an anti-social folksonomist? This discovery reminds me that it's important for findability to have tags that others will use too. On sites where popularity ...Read More »

Using the del.icio.us bookmarklet button

{ Posted on Jun 01 2007 by annegentle }

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Tags : bookmarks, del.icio.us, IE7, Internet Explorer buttons, tagging
Categories : talk.bmc

With del.icio.us, you can collect your favorites or bookmarks on the web, tag them with keywords, and then access them from any computer. I have stopped using all other bookmarker tools and have imported all my favorites into del.icio.us. IE 7 ...Read More »